Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-10-28
FARM DAIRY AND HOUSEHOLD.
Gleanings,

tie young clover than they used
to, aud are learning to treat it
mors decently, says the Philadel-
phia Press. Grain and stubble
used 10 be turned into as soon as
the crop was secured, partly 10
save scattering grain, but mainly
to let stock get fresh bite at the
young feed. Where clover plant
is eaten down to the root the
growth of the latter is much i'm
paired. The plant more easily
beco mes victim to the severity
of winter. There are now scores
of farmers in this country wao
would as soon turn sock into o
grain held just before as just
a ter harvest. But when the
clover hegins to blossom in fall
light pr uring sufficient to keep
the hesds down in not injurious.
A good many farmers have the
idea. says the Ploughman, tbet
MIX is not just right for pigs
until it is soured. This is a very
ser Gus mistake. No possible
good can come from souring it,
but very serious harm. After you
take out the cream and watef, the
most that remains is caseine ard
sugar of milk. Both are valuable.
But when you sour it you change
the sugar of milk into Tactic acid,
and lose nearly half the entire
value of your milk. Feed milk
sweet to celves and pigs and colts.
Never let it sour if you can help it
Why will you throw away half its.
value?
Gardens need more manure.
This fact should always be kept in
mind, and every bit of waste that
is likely to have any value, me-
chanical or otherwise, as manure,
should be added to the heap. It
is wonderful what a lot of manure
may be got together by those who
keep this always before them.
Everybody, of couroe, shonld keep
pigs to eat up the waste vegetables,
and with the manure frcm the pig
stye should be blended all the
other waste matters of the garden,
and house.
Oil, says the American Agri-
culturist, is fatal to every insect it
touches, and sulphur is very often
sive to them. A mixture of four
ounces of lard and one of sulphur,
well rubbed together, and with
the addition of one ounce of
kerosene oil and one drachm of
creosote will be found an excellent
remedy against all sorts of insect
vermin, while the liberal use of
kerosene oil on poultry rocsts will
free the fowls of their tormentors.
Vick's Magazine says that basic
Stag, the refuse of steel works,
when freed from iron and reduced
to apowder proves to be valuable
fertilizer, principally Oh account
OF the phosphorus it contains.
Mountains of black Stag have
accumulated about the iron and
steel works in England, and much
IL this country, all of which can
he proftab!y worked over and
made into valuable manure.
1t is fallacy to milk COWS Bat
once day, when they drop of in
yield In the winter. AS long as
the cow is MIXED, it should be
twice day. 1t is injurious to
both COW aud mixer to allow the
milk to remain SO longin the
udder.
A good way to keep the eow-yard
clean aud wholesome, and save the
manure, is simply to plough the
yard as often as once month.
Ihis method is simple and effect
i've.
Now is the time to prune peach
trees, SO as to allow them to
recover from the wounds, and
allow the wood - become ri pened
and hardened before cold weather.
G-een rye is growing in favor
among da!rymau as forage crop
for milk cows. 1t not only causes
an increase in the quality of
ml's. bat the quality of cream and
butter is said to be improved
by its use. i
"'he essence of good butter
maj 'g is that the period of time
Iet"een the milking of the COW
p 10 tue making of the butter
lo1ld be miDimized." This is the
,ea' mony OF MIR. Hudson, a great
English butter expert.
A da.rymsu says that he has
opud sorghum cane cut fine aud
ed to cows with wheat bran quite 6
beneficial. He says the milk was !
rot oaly increased by this feed -:
'dt was richer also. h
English da.ryman are now |
i'most unanimous in the opinion {
hst gror Id oats are the best milk /
producing grain ration known. 6
Never forget to salt and water l
orr stock regularly. G